TEMPELW Correspondence between Henry John Elwes and Isaac Bayley Balfour Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Archives
Library,Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh,20a Inverleith Row Edinburgh EH3 5LR Telephone: 0131 2481036 Email: lpaterson@rbge.org.uk
2023-06-14 Generated by Access to Memory (AtoM) 2.10.1 2026-08-17 04:10 UTC English C:2:1 Correspondence between Henry John Elwes and Isaac Bayley Balfour TEMPELW 1900 - 1922 1 box, 40cm Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Archives
Library,Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh,20a Inverleith Row Edinburgh EH3 5LR Telephone: 0131 2481036 Email: lpaterson@rbge.org.uk
English Elwes, Henry John Balfour, Sir Isaac Bayley

Son of John Hutton Balfour, Isaac Bayley Balfour was Regius Keeper at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh between 1888 and 1922, specialising in Rhododendrons and Primulas and making improvements to the RBGE's teaching and laboratory facilities.

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GB 235

Box of correspondence between Henry John Elwes and Isaac Bayley Balfour, to be added to Isaac Bayley Balfour's correspondence collection in due course.There is a reference to John MacWatt and Lilian Snelling in letter 11 from 1915 (Snelling also in letters 3, 9, 12, 13, 14, 15, 21, 25, 24, 29, 36, 38, 40 - and again throughout 1916. Refs to Snelling coming to Edinburgh and Mrs Balfour getting her lodgings in November 1917. Ref to Snelling attending IBB's lectures, April 1918Letter from Dr Homi (Yasuyoshi) Shirasawa in 1910.27 Sept 1913 - reference to Robert Moyes Adam's private work31 Aug 1914 - reference to Isaac Bayley Balfour's thoughts on photography versus botanical illustrations26 April 1915 - reference to Inverleith House being commandeered for military purposes6 May 1915 - referreing to Snelling and Moyes Adam, "She is undoubtedly very clever - a fine colourist. I have given instructions to my photographer to photograph everything she does on the day she draws it so that we may have a sun picture of what she has drawn"references to Col. F. Bailey's wounds, 191515 June 1915 - reference to L.B. Stewart enlisting1915, 41 - copy letter from G.H. Cave

 Snelling, Lilian

This is a collection of letters between Balfour and Elwes that was presumably boxed separately from the Balfour collection both because of its size and because it enabled it to be easier to find at the time. It's now thought that it should be returned and catalogued as part of the Balfour correspondence collection (GB 235 RBG/1/IBB/1/1/E) and this is a temporary catalogue record to allow the collection to be findable before then. (LP)

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